Ironing-board



(No Model.)

W. A. E. HENRIGI.

IRONING BOARD.

No. 426-314. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

\VILLIAM A. E. IIENRIOI, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO EDIVIN E. SIBIJEY, OF CHELSEA. MASSACHUSETTS.

lRONlNG-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,014, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed Decembe 5, 1888. Serial No. 292,737- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: quickly and firmly secured thereon, and at the Be it known that I, \VILLIAM A. E. IIENRICI, same time may have a smooth yielding base of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in upon which to rest, so as to hold the bosom the State of New York, have invented new smooth, while allowing it to yield slightly to and useful Improvements in lroningBoards, the ironing-rolls as it passes through, so that 5 5 of which the following, taken in connection the force of the same will in a measure be With the accompanying drawings, is a full, overcome. clear, and exact description. In constructing my device a wooden base This invention relates to improvements in A is first provided of the desired form, and ironing-boards, whereby there is produced a upon this is cemented a sheet of rubber B, 60 board whereon shirts may be quickly secured which is at least as large as the bosom of the in such manner as to allow them. to be run shirt to be ironed. Over this is stretched sevthrough the ironing-rolls without danger of eral thicknesses of muslin, and over all a tearing the shirts or disarranging them. on sheet of linen C. This cloth covering is held I 5 the board. This isaccomplished in such manin place by pins projecting laterally from the 65 ner as to leave the neckband of the shirt unsides of the wooden base. After the cloth affected by the ironing-rolls, so that the same covering is in position the steel strips 1) Z; are may be afterward smoothly ironed and finscrewed down, so that the pins a a will be ished in a uniform style, so that all the shirts forced through all the thicknesses of cloth 2o ironedonmyimproved board maybe as nearly and into the holes a 0. in said strips, thus 70 uniform in appearance as possible, this bepreventing anyaccidental escape of said cloth ing particularly desirable in shirt-factories, covering from said pins. where new goods are made in large quantities; To the under side of the board, Fig. 6, is and my invention consists in contain peculihinged the rod D, atthe end of which is secured arities of construction, as will be hereinafter the central part of an arc-shaped spring E, 75 more fully set forth in the specification and to which are secured the blocks F F, said rod specifically pointed out in the claims. D resting in the longitudinal groove 2' on the In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a plan under side of the board when the blocks are view of my new ironing-board with a shirt sein their closed position on the board. At the cured thereon in position ready to be ironed. opposite end of the board, on afixed shaft G, Sc Fig. 2 is a plan view having part of the covis mounted the rcvoluble block or roll G, prefering thereof removed to show the different erablyof wood, and recessed longitudinally layers of padding, and having part of the revfor the reception of a spring II, coiled on said oluble block broken off to show the inclosed shaft and fitting tightly between the block and 3 5 spring to better illustrate the details of conshaft. The block is free to revolve in the di- 8 5 struction. Fig. 3 is a side view showing the rection shown bythe arrow,but is held against clamping device for the upper end of the shirt movement in the opposite direction by the thrown back. Fig. etisa plan View of the neckfree end of the spring acting as an elastic debandq'etaining device in its closed position. tent on the block. The outer end of the spring 40 Fig. 5 is an. end View of the same in its open is secured to the block and the inner end is 0 position. Fig. 6 is an inverted plan view of free. When the block is pressed in the dia portion of the body of my improved board, reetion of the coil, the spring is wound more showing the rod D hinged to said board. Fig. tightly about the shaft, clutching the same 7 is a face View of one of the retaining-blocks, and locking the block thereto. Movement of showing the serrations thereon. Fig. 8 is a the block in the opposite direction unwinds 5 sectional view of a partof the clamping roll the coil and loosens the spring on the shaft, and its spring and shaft. allowing the block to turn freely.

In the construction of ironing-boards it is The top end of thcboard is provided with desirable that the board and its appurte the opening 0 of the form it is designed to nances be so arranged that the shirt may be shape the neckband, and. is provided with too the brace J, which firmly braces the end of the board, said brace being provided with the stud j, which is hereinafter explained.

In practice my board is used as follows: The shirt to be ironed is slipped over the body portion of the board, and the rod D, with its spring and blocks, is closed over the upper end of the shirt, bearing thereon at the yokes, so that it is held in the same position as on the person of the wearer. This is more securely effected by reason of the spring E pressing the blocks provided with serrations M on their contact-faces against correspond ing serrations N on the outer faces of the brace J at the point of contact. The lower end of the skirt of the shirt is then drawn down back of the board and the upper but ton-holes of the neckband are slipped over the stud j, so that the shirt is held in substantially the position in which it is to be worn on the person. After the shirt is thus secured at the upper end the skirt is turned over around the roller G and is stretched as tightly as possible without tearing by turning said block with the hand in the direction indicated by the arrow. The neckband is then turned down into the opening 0, formed to fit it, and the spring-retaining device K is inserted in the opening 0 of the board, with the stud j projecting through the U- shaped opening 6 in said spring K, after which the leverL is pressed down in the V- shaped opening in said spring-K and forces the same outward, pressing it against the neckband of the shirt and holding said neckband in place in said opening 0, the

top edge of said spring being substantially on a level with the plane of the shirt-bosom, so

as not to interfere with the operation of the ironing-rolls under which it is to be passed. It will be observed that when the shirt has been properly placed in position on my improved board it is secured against any acci-.

dental displacement, and the bosom may be ironed without in any manner affecting the neckband. More than this, the entire bosom may be ironed at one operation by the rolls, -and'a's the opening 0 in the bosom-board is of the contour it is intended to have the neck-, band the band may be afterward finished As the neckband I, is buttoned in the opening 0 and held therein without again dampening.

by the spring K, it is impossible for it to slip out or come in contact with the ironing-rolls until released by the operator.

The roll G, provided with the spring H, maybe freely revolved in the direction required to stretch the shirt over the board to,

tighten the bosom, but it is held against returning to allow the shirt to escape from its .proper position until it is ironed, when it may be released by simply drawing on the Patent of the United States, is

1. In an ironing-board for shirts, a neckband opening provided with astud, a springretaining device for holding the ban d, a clamp for securing the yoke, and a device for stretching the bosom on the board, all combined substantially as shown.

2. An ironing-board for shirts, provided with a clamp for the yokes thereof, consisting of a rod hinged at one end centrally to the under side of the board, and an arc-shaped spring centrally secured to the other end of the rod, and having its ends free and each provided with a retaining-block acting to clamp the yokes of the shirt against the up per end of the board, substantially as de* scribed.

3. An ironing-board for'shirts, provided at one end with an opening for the neckband, a stud projecting into said opening, and a retaining-spring adapted to conform to the contour of said opening to hold the band therein, in combination with a revoluble tightening-block at the other end to draw the shirt over, the board, and kept inposition by a spring-detent, substantially as described.

4. An ironing-board for shirts,provided with a tightening device consisting of a block or roll mounted on a fixed shaft and longitudinally recessed, combined with a spring coiled on said shaft, allowing free rotation of the block in one direction and acting as an elastic detent against motion in an opposite direction, substantially as described.

5. An ironing-board for shirts, provided at one endwith an opening and acurved springclamp therein for the neckband, and with yoke-clamping blocks on the free ends of an arc-shaped spring centrally secured to a rod which is centrallyhinged to the under side of the board, said board having at its other end on a fixed shaft a recessed revoluble block, and

a spring coiled on the shaft and fitting tightly in said recess between the block and shaft,

. all combined, substantially as set forth, to securely clamp the shirt to the board at all de= sirable points.

6. An ironing-board for shirts, provided at one end with spring-clamps for the yoke, a recess for the neckband, and curved springclamp fitting therein, and having at its other end a tightening block mounted on a fixed shaft and recessed for a spring coiled on said shaft and acting as an elastic detent against motion of the block in one direction, while allowing it to rotate freely in the opposite direction, all substantially as described.

7. In an ironing-board, the combination of a wooden base, a rubber cushion secured thereto, and a cloth covering over all, said cloth covering being removably attached to the baseby means of strips of metal pressing said cloth onto the pins projecting laterally from the base, all constructed and arranged substantially as specified and shown.

8. As a new article of manufacture, a neckband-retaining device consisting wholly of a curved spring, and a pivoted arm having an enlargement acting directly on the two adjacent parts of said spring to distend it, substantially as described.

9. As a new article of manufacture, a neckband-retaining device consisting of a spring substantially circularin shape exteriorly,with its ends bent into the interior of th e circle, and an arm pivoted between the ends of said spring and provided with an enlarged free end for distending the said spring, substantially as shown and set forth.

10. As anew article of manufacture, a neckband-retaining device consisting of a spring provided with an excisionto accommodate the shirt-stud, and an arm pivoted between the ends of said spring and provided with an enlarged free end for distending said spring, constructed substantially as described and shown.

In testimon I whereof I have hereunto si ned- \VILLIAM A. E. HENRIOI.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK H. GIBBS, M. L. GIBBS. 

